Cristian Luțic
Cristian Luțic is a cybersecurity professional and Editor-in-Chief of iSec.News, with experience in security enablement, risk analysis, and vulnerability reporting. As Editor-in-Chief, he is responsible for editorial standards, source verification, and publication oversight at iSec News.
From professional sports to cybersecurity, his career path may have been unconventional, but it has been driven by the same core values: discipline, perseverance, and a passion for doing meaningful, impactful work.
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Ransomware attack on University of Hawaii Cancer Center exposed data for nearly 1.2 million people
A ransomware gang breached the University of Hawaii Cancer Center Epidemiology Division in August 2025 and stole data for nearly 1.2 million people, including Social Security and driver’s license numbers, the university said in a notice.
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SloppyLemming deploys BurrowShell and Rust keylogger against Pakistan and Bangladesh
SloppyLemming attacked government and critical infrastructure in Pakistan and Bangladesh from January 2025 to January 2026, deploying the BurrowShell backdoor and a Rust keylogger through spear-phishing PDF and Excel lures.
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Google issues patches for 129 Android flaws including actively exploited Qualcomm zero day
Google released updates that fix 129 Android vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero day in a Qualcomm display component. The bulletin adds two March patch levels and addresses 10 critical flaws that can enable remote code execution.
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Starkiller phishing suite proxies live login pages to bypass MFA
Researchers disclosed Starkiller, a phishing suite that proxies live login pages through attacker controlled headless browsers to capture keystrokes, session tokens and MFA codes. The toolkit centralises deployment and uses URL masking to hide destinations.
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CyberStrikeAI observed on infrastructure tied to FortiGate campaign, researchers say
A Team Cymru report says the open source CyberStrikeAI platform was observed on infrastructure tied to a campaign that compromised more than 500 FortiGate firewalls. The report found 21 IPs running the tool between January 20 and February 26, 2026.
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Patched Chrome flaw allowed malicious extensions to hijack Gemini panel
A Unit 42 technical analysis found CVE-2026-0628 could let malicious Chrome extensions inject code into the Gemini panel and access camera, microphone, screenshots, and local files. Google patched the issue in early January 2026.
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Chrome to adopt Merkle Tree Certificates in phased move toward quantum resistance
Google said Chrome will develop Merkle Tree Certificates to make HTTPS resilient to future quantum threats and plans a phased rollout through Q3 2027, beginning with a feasibility study with Cloudflare.
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UK automated scanner cuts DNS fix times from 50 days to eight
An automated Vulnerability Monitoring System cut DNS vulnerability remediation in the UK public sector from 50 days to eight and sped other fixes. Firefox added a Sanitizer API and the FTC updated COPPA policy on age verification.
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North Korean actors publish 26 malicious npm packages that deploy credential stealer and RAT
North Korean-linked actors published 26 malicious npm packages in March 2026 that use Pastebin text steganography and Vercel hosted C2 to deliver a credential stealer and remote access trojan targeting developer systems.
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Agentic AI moves into production, raising governance and monitoring demands
Agentic AI is moving into production, enabling models to plan and execute multi-step tasks without continuous human input. This increases the need for supervised fine-tuning, continuous monitoring and traceability to manage operational and regulatory risk.
